shoe. It is suggested that here it may be a caparison of leather:
"shoes" seem out of place here. See Irische Texts, iii.



Seven trumpeters with them with golden and silver trumpets with many
coloured garments, with golden fairy-yellow heads of hair, with shining
tunics. There were three jesters before them with silver diadems under
gilding. Shields with engraved emblems (or marks of distinction) with
each of them; with crested staves, with ribs of bronze (copper-bronze)
along their sides. Three harp-players with a king's appearance about
each of them opposite to these.[FN#22] They depart for Cruachan with
that appearance on them.


[FN#22] The word for caparisons is "acrann," the usual word for a
shoe. It is suggested that here it may be a caparison of leather:
"shoes" seem out of place here. See Irische Texts, iii. 2. p. 531.


The watchman sees them from the dun when they had come into the plain
of Cruachan. "A multitude I see," he says, "(come) towards the dun in
their numbers. Since Ailill and Maev assumed sovereignty there came
not to them before, and there shall not come to them, a multitude,
which is more beautiful, or which is more splendid. It is the same
with me that it were in a vat of wine my head should be, with the
breeze that goes over them.

"The manipulation and play that the young hero who is in it makes--I
have not before seen its likeness. He shoots his pole a shot's